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Nita Strauss
Vinita Sandhya Strauss (born December 7, 1986) is an American rock musician. She is currently a guitarist for Alice Cooper, has also been a touring guitarist for Demi Lovato and has a successful career as a solo artist. Strauss is regularly featured on the covers of worldwide print magazines including Guitar World and Guitar Player, was the first female signature artist with Ibanez guitars, and became the first female rock solo artist in 32 years to hit number one on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart.
Strauss was born on December 7, 1986 in Los Angeles. She started touring with her own band Lia-Fail as a teenager, leaving high school in her junior year to pursue music full time; the band included future world champion boxer Mikaela Mayer. Although initially known for her work with Iron Maiden all-female tribute band The Iron Maidens, Strauss' career has included performing with several rock and metal ensembles including As Blood Runs Black, Consume the Fire, Femme Fatale, and the video-game supergroup Critical Hit.
In 2014, Strauss was the official in-house guitarist for the Los Angeles Kiss (LA Kiss), the arena football team owned by Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons of Kiss. The house band played the national anthem and provided additional music during the games.
In June 2014, Strauss was hired to replace Orianthi as Alice Cooper's touring guitarist for the remaining 2014 tour dates. She toured with Alice Cooper until July 2022, when she announced her departure from the touring band. A few days later, Strauss announced that she had joined Demi Lovato's backing band as a touring guitarist. On March 3, 2023, Alice Cooper announced that Strauss would return for the 2023 tour.
Strauss is featured as the main guitarist for seven songs on the Docker's Guild album The Heisenberg Diaries – Book A: Sounds of Future Past, released on January 21, 2016.
Strauss appeared in the 2017 Netflix documentary Hired Gun.
On 2 April 2026, Alice Cooper announced that Strauss would not have been part of his supporting band for the 2026–2027 tour, for she had decided earlier in the year to take a maternity leave from live performance. Contextually, Cooper announced British guitarist Anna Cara as temporary replacement for Strauss.
In April 2018, Strauss launched a Kickstarter campaign for her debut solo record Controlled Chaos. The campaign was successfully funded in two hours and eventually raised eight times its initial goal. Strauss produced the record herself, including the majority of the engineering work, and played all of the guitars and bass on the record.
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Nita Strauss
Vinita Sandhya Strauss (born December 7, 1986) is an American rock musician. She is currently a guitarist for Alice Cooper, has also been a touring guitarist for Demi Lovato and has a successful career as a solo artist. Strauss is regularly featured on the covers of worldwide print magazines including Guitar World and Guitar Player, was the first female signature artist with Ibanez guitars, and became the first female rock solo artist in 32 years to hit number one on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart.
Strauss was born on December 7, 1986 in Los Angeles. She started touring with her own band Lia-Fail as a teenager, leaving high school in her junior year to pursue music full time; the band included future world champion boxer Mikaela Mayer. Although initially known for her work with Iron Maiden all-female tribute band The Iron Maidens, Strauss' career has included performing with several rock and metal ensembles including As Blood Runs Black, Consume the Fire, Femme Fatale, and the video-game supergroup Critical Hit.
In 2014, Strauss was the official in-house guitarist for the Los Angeles Kiss (LA Kiss), the arena football team owned by Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons of Kiss. The house band played the national anthem and provided additional music during the games.
In June 2014, Strauss was hired to replace Orianthi as Alice Cooper's touring guitarist for the remaining 2014 tour dates. She toured with Alice Cooper until July 2022, when she announced her departure from the touring band. A few days later, Strauss announced that she had joined Demi Lovato's backing band as a touring guitarist. On March 3, 2023, Alice Cooper announced that Strauss would return for the 2023 tour.
Strauss is featured as the main guitarist for seven songs on the Docker's Guild album The Heisenberg Diaries – Book A: Sounds of Future Past, released on January 21, 2016.
Strauss appeared in the 2017 Netflix documentary Hired Gun.
On 2 April 2026, Alice Cooper announced that Strauss would not have been part of his supporting band for the 2026–2027 tour, for she had decided earlier in the year to take a maternity leave from live performance. Contextually, Cooper announced British guitarist Anna Cara as temporary replacement for Strauss.
In April 2018, Strauss launched a Kickstarter campaign for her debut solo record Controlled Chaos. The campaign was successfully funded in two hours and eventually raised eight times its initial goal. Strauss produced the record herself, including the majority of the engineering work, and played all of the guitars and bass on the record.
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